Brilliantly reinterpreted as an animated film and earning a 2007 Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature, this is Marjane Satrapi's graphical autobiography of growing up in Iran as an educated, liberal-minded young woman during the Islamic Revolution. The film also won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Animated Feature prizes from both the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics Associations, and features the voice talents of Chiara Mastroianni, her real-life mother Catherine Deneuve, Sean Penn, Gena Rowlands, and Iggy Pop. In Satrapi's characteristic black-lined drawing style and funny, startling, and frank storytelling, the film describes her passionate search for truth and freedom in a world of hypocrisy and suppression.